Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Are you confident your vendors can withstand a cyber attack? If not, you should continuously evaluate your third-party security, especially if you’re sharing sensitive customer data across your vendor ecosystem. In this post, we break down the concepts of third-party security and provide an actionable roadmap for effectively strengthening this essential branch of cybersecurity across your organization.

Your vendors are essential partners, but they could also be your organization's biggest hidden security risk. A robust vendor review process is the key to ensuring onboarded vendors align with your cybersecurity standards and don't increase your likelihood of suffering a data breach. This guide outlines everything you need to know to build a structured, repeatable, and scalable vendor security review process.

The explosion of generative artificial intelligence tools is sparking a wave of enthusiasm in workplaces, with employees eagerly embracing new applications to boost productivity and innovation. However, this adoption often leads to a new phenomenon known as shadow AI—the use of artificial intelligence tools within an organization without explicit approval or oversight from IT and security teams. Unsanctioned use of AI creates significant (and often invisible) security blind spots.

Similar to Ollama and llama.cpp, LlamaIndex provides an application layer for connecting your data to LLMs and interacting with it through a chat interface. While LlamaIndex is an open source project like other LLM application frameworks, LlamaIndex is also a company, with a recent Series A, a commercial offering, and a more polished aesthetic than their strictly DIY counterparts.

Today, the average employee juggles dozens of SaaS apps—each requesting access with a quick click. But how many employees check whether those permissions (granted in moments to boost productivity) might be unlocking sensitive company data? While businesses thrive on the agility and collaboration SaaS tools provide, this convenience can create a frequently overlooked web of user-granted permissions.